denby, who wrote the liberalism piece, argue that the system will survive because it is the only way to address the common problems on the globe. they see this as a moment when the order will be tested. but when we look back 20 years from now, we will see this as a time when the liberal order -- >> please don't stand. sit-down, sit-down. this feels pretty comfortable, to tell you the truth. what an incredible honor. in all honesty, a couple years ago, the flood of floods. the recovery has been really tough. so many people we still need to keep in our thoughts and prayers. but tonight, think about this for a second.

a real tribute to the military, the active, the veterans. [applause] justice: the people that have absolutely, that we owe everything to. i can tell you with unbelievable ride, for a little guy, little jimmy justice, to be able to introduce the guy, the man -- done more that has for this country than anyone could ever imagine. [applause] man that trulyhe deserves so much credit. i would only say, judge him by his deeds. he is a man that has a passion for energy, and we are the beneficiaries. god bless him in every way.

please bring on the president of the united states of america, donald trump. >> ♪ and i'm proud to be an american where at least i know i'm free and i won't forget the men who died who gave that write to me and i gladly stand up next to you and defend her still today ♪ pres. trump: thank you very much. thank you, jim. [applause] pres. trump: that is a great gentleman. and he is a big man, is indeed? -- isn't he? he is a big man, big jim. please sit down. thank you very much. west virginia is truly blessed to have someone like the governor and the wonderful first lady, and i just want to say that i love this date, which i happen to win by 42 points over a democrat.

[applause] pres. trump: that's like one of these genius golfers winning by nine, the same thing. but i want to thank everybody. i have spent the last three days interviewing and thinking about supreme court justices. such an important decision. we are going to give you a great line. we are going to announce it on monday and i think you will be very impressed. very talented, brilliant people and i think you will love it, like justice gorsuch. we hit a home run there and we will hit a home run here. step-by-step, we are making america great again. so jim asked me to do this. he did switch from democrat to republican, you don't see that often. so it is hard for me to say no, i am not coming. i said i am coming, jim. it is a beautiful place.

i watched these tournaments, i have such respect for these golfers. nobody knows how good they are. they are really talented athletes. we are gathered here on the eve of the fourth of july to celebrate the courageous men and women who make freedom possible. our brave service members and our wonderful veterans. we love our veterans. [applause] years --mp: for 242 that's a long time -- american independence has endured because of the sweat, blood, and sacrifice of the american armed forces. you probably have been hearing we may add a little thing called 's. we have air force -- a little force.alled space we have air force. we are thinking about it because space is becoming important militarily. the greatest force for peace and

justice in the world. during world war i and world war ii, the green briar served as a hospital for wounded soldiers, so it is so appropriate. tonight at the green briar's first annual salute to service dinner, we are calling upon this rich history and carrying on the pga's proud legacy of supporting america's heroes. ceremonys for tonight are many incredible golfers who will be competing at the green briar this week, and i will be sitting home at the white house and watching and saying, i wish i could play like that. among those with us, bubba watson. he is having a good year. where is bubba? [applause] pres. trump: he is having a good year. thank you, bubba. keegan bradley. great. thanks, keekgan.

that potter is working. i just said the short potter is ok. the longest hitter i have ever seen, big john daly. [applause] pres. trump: i played was john in a tournament that we won -- meaning that he won. it is funny, he won and i went back, everyone said, how do you do? i won. and phil mickelson. [applause] pres. trump: i will never forget. i don't think phil can member phil?-- where is he is so incredible. it was about 15 years ago and i am watching and the people -- and the place is packed with people. i see phil and i think he likes me. he is on the third hole and it is a big tournament.

he says, just a second. he has the ball with a three wood, 280 down the middle, then comes back. good, how is everything else? i said, that really is a special talent. that is just the office. it is really amazing. what a great career, great gentleman. i also want to thank jim nance for leading this evening's program. jim, wherever you may be. where is jim? [applause] pres. trump: does a great job. hi, jim. really good. and slugger white, he keeps everybody honest. where is slugger? he has done a fantastic job. nobody plays games with him. i tried to move the tees back and he would not let me do it. slugger is great. and all the pga officials and volunteers for their incredibly hard work in putting this really

incredible event together. the job that jim justice has done with the course is really spectacular. also with us this evening is acting be a secretary, doing a , doingng v.a. secretary a phenomenal job, peter o'rourke. [applause] pres. trump: good job, peter. you have done a lot of work at the v.a. along with west virginia senator shelley moore cap at a, who is a good golfer, by the way. and congressman alex mooney and morgan griffith. where are they? thanks, fellas. tremendous help to me, getting things past. you think it is easy in congress, not easy. if i did not introduce them as an example today, they would never vote for me again. that would be the end of your

taxes, the end of everything. i also want to thank the great attorney general from west virginia, patrick morrissey, who is fighting a great race. and congratulations to patrick, running for the u.s. senate. he is a tough, strong guy. he ran an incredible race against some very talented people and he won, and now he has another race. i see the polls have a very close. we may be surprised to see what is going to happen. he has incredible energy and strength and love the people of west virginia, like, a lot. good luck, patrick, we are proud of you. great job. speaker tim are instead and majority whip carol miller, i want to thank you very much for being here. carol, good luck in the race. i know you are going to do well. we are honored to have with us

major general james lawyer of the national guard -- james hoyer of the national guard, the big cheese. thank you very much. tomorrow, families across our nation will gather to support the fourth of july. as we do, we will think of the men and women serving overseas at this very moment, far away from their families, protecting america and watching over our people. they are there and they are with us and they are brave. these are incredible people. and we will thank god for blessing us with these unbelievable heroes. to everyone here tonight who has served our nation in uniform, will you please stand so we can express our gratitude? please stand, please. [applause]

pres. trump: tough cookies, tough cookies. when it comes to ice and border patrol and all of these incredible people you have been reading about who are doing them the unreal job -- doing an unreal job -- we want to border security, border security in our country. we respect ice. these are tough people and you have to be tough. when they have a problem with ms 13 gangs and all of these others that came through these horrible and weak immigration laws that we are strengthening up -- we are going to get them done. we need tough laws, fair laws. but when these people come into our country and, legally -- and come illegally and dispersed

through the country and use the nests of ms 13, it is like liberating hounds. we send eyes in. for ice, it is just another day keeganil and john and and bubba, like the way they play golf. they don't know it is hard. they don't know what that is. these guys walk into those areas, take them out of there so fast, not afraid of anything. it is like liberating a town. like in a war, you are liberating a town or area. in there and sometimes they have to go in swinging. they don't mind. it is tough. and then i hear democrats saying, we want to abandon ice. and wenot abandoning ice are not abandoning our law enforcement. just the opposite.

so i want to recognize today a legendary hero from west virginia, a veteran who fought in iwo jima. in february of 1945, he volunteered to dash straight into enemy fire to destroy vital enemy fortifications and clear of that firm -- clear a path for american forces. he went right into the machine gun nest. john daly would not do that and he is pretty tough. would you do that? i don't think so. definitely hurt your golf game. that is the end of golf. in the face of bullets and then as, he risked his life for his brothers in arms and earned the congressional medal of honor. [applause] pres. trump: today, woody williams is 94 years old. he has dedicated his life supporting goldstar families and building memorials to honor our

fallen servicemembers. in 2016, thousands were moved by when hepatriotic words spoke at one of our rallies in west virginia. he was incredible, still remember it. of course, we all remember the wonderful moment when what he flipped the coin at this year's super bowl. woody, you are a national treasure and we thank you from the bottom of our hearts. woody, where is woody? where is woody? thank you, woody. [applause] pres. trump: thank you, woody. brave man. 94. i give a lot of congressional medals of honor. when i say a lot -- probably five so far, and it is really one of my greatest honors to do.

the congressional medal of honor, our highest honor. what he, fantastic -- woody, fantastic. so often i am giving them posthumously, but we hear the stories and their families are there and everyone is proud. every once in a while, we have one that can be given to people who are living, like you, woody. we are also deeply moved and honored to be joined by a goldstar spouse who knows the true price of freedom, christine. christine's husband chris was a sergeant in the army's 82nd airborne division, great group. chris was killed in action in iraq in 2005. christine, tonight we send the love and gratitude of our entire nation. your husband was a special man. we will hold you and your precious family in our hearts forever. christine, where are you?

thank you very much. [applause] thank you,: christine. [applause] christine,: and through your husband's heroic sacrifice, you understand that he has achieved immortality. our debt to him and you is internal and everlasting. thank you very much. from bunker hill to the beaches of normandy and the jungles of vietnam, americans in every generation have given their last breath, their last measure of love, and their final moments on this earth in defense of their country and their countrymen. our service members have fulfilled their duty to america a million times over. now we must fulfill our sacred duty to them.

we must protect those who protect us. when our service members are in uniform, it is our obligation to ensure that they have the finest equipment, the finest training. resources better than any military honors. and when our service members returned to civilian life as veterans, we must ensure they have access to the best care, treatment, and support in the world. we are restoring american security by rebuilding our great military. year withcured this the help of shelley and your $700 congressman, a record billion for our military. year, $716 billion, the most amount ever. we are rebuilding our military. and when have we needed it more, outside of words themselves?

think about it. we are building it so big, so powerful, so strong -- is stronger than we have ever been, and hopefully we will never have to use it. as the golfers can tell you, the stronger we get, the less likely it is we will have to use it. but we will be at a point the likes of which we have never been as a power. and again, hopefully never having to use that incredible equipment that is built right here, best in the world, in the usa. [applause] we also gave our great warriors their largest pay raise in eight years, so they got a pay raise, and it was about time. they have been waiting for a long time. and i am proud that under my administration, we passed the largest ba reforms in half a century.

i signed into law the v.a. accountability legislation. so you understand, accountability -- you could not fire anybody in the v.a. they could be sadists, they could be late, they could be bad, they could have lots of problems. they could talk back to you. you could not do a thing. for 40 years, they have been trying to get it passed, and we got it passed. it is called v.a. accountability. as i have said before, we now look at the person that violates our great veterans and we say, jim, get the hell out of here, you are fired, and now we can do it. if there are no good -- and if they are good, we reward them. we have a lot of great people. the whited, we opened house v.a. hotline and have introduced new guidelines on transparency and quality of care.

we are processing veteran claims more quickly than ever before. we are expanding health care so our great veterans can get care anywhere, anytime. importantly -- i don't know, accountability is important, but this is another 1 -- i used to be very proud of myself on the campaign trail when i would say, why don't they just pay a doctor to take care? because as you know, sometimes veterans will stand online for days and days, for weeks. can you imagine phil mickelson going to the doctor and they say he should be there in about 12 days? 12 days that's not acceptable, right? so what we are doing now is if there is a weight, a problem, you are going to a doctor that might be right across the street. you are going to get taken care of immediately. people would wait so long.

you would wait weeks. you would stand in line. you would literally come back day after day. so now we have what is called v.a. choice. i used to say, why don't they do that? i did not know anything. i thought i was brilliant, i thought this was the greatest idea. then i told people and they said, we have been trying to get that passed for years. i was very good at getting it passed because we got it past three weeks ago. so now we have v.a. choice, where if you have to wait to go to a doctor, we pay the doctor. so we are very proud of that and very proud of what is happening at the v.a. to maintain our security of the nation, we understand we must have economic strength as well. -- if idy believes it would have said it, they would have said, what a horrible thing to say, what an exaggeration. the fake news are all back there. [laughter] shouttrump: if i were to

at 75, they would say, there is no way he can do it. they might be right about that actually. but they are back there. they would have said, no way. 3.4 million new jobs since election day. they would have said no way. a lot of people would have said. unemployment claims are at the lowest point in 44 years. that means people are working again. isican-american unemployment in the lowest it has ever been. the history of our country, it is at the lowest in the history of our country. remember i used to say, what do you have to lose with trump? unemployment,can the lowest in the history of our country. [applause] pres. trump: by the way, women -- i was saying two weeks ago, 21 years. now i am saying 66 years.

i think within two weeks i will be saying, the lowest in history. the lowest unemployment and 66 years. last year in west virginia, per capita personal income grew more than 40% faster than the national average. coal exports -- you remember i said cold, clean cold -- jim, clean coal. we always say clean coal. what they can do now is incredible. : exports skyrocketed by more than 60% nationwide, and i am so proud of that. when we came here, i met with the miners and talked to them about a different way of life. they did not want to hear about it. they love digging coal. their grandfathers, their fathers, their families. and cold is coming back. it is also coming back for another reason -- national security, and your governor and senator knows very well what that means. , you build a

pipeline, that is the end of the pipeline. with coal, that is indestructible. you can move it around, debit at the plant, rain on top of it for a long time. you can do whatever you want. snow, sleet, wind, you just dump it, it is there. you hit the five lines, and that is the end of it. you say, we better start cutting some lumber. for national security purposes -- people don't talk about it enough -- coal. america is wedding again because we are finally putting america first. tomorrow we commemorate 242 years since our forefathers adopted the declaration of independence. salteir quest to become a -- a sovereign nation, they knew they would have to defeat the

most powerful military on land or sea. they knew that. they knew that as they met thousands upon thousands of british troops were disembarking outside of new york city, preparing to crush the revolution. they were going to crush it quickly. they were not even actually taking it seriously. these patriots knew that their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor were on the line. they risked it all for the promise of more of a just and better future. they wanted this great future in this incredible land. they made the same brave choice as countless others who followed in the generations after them, the choice to stand strong for their families, their principles, their pride, and their god-given rights. every time we see an american in uniform, anytime we have the

chance to shake the hand of a veteran, and whenever we hear the stories of our warriors, we are reminded how truly blessed we are to be americans and to live in this land of our great heroes. you, our great heroes. this fourth of july, let us pledge to renew the bonds of love and loyalty that unite us together as americans. let us pledge to expand the blessings of liberty, prosperity, and justice to all of our citizens, and let us always remember that we are one people and one nation saluting one great american flag. [applause] pres. trump: i want to thank every one of these incredible

athletes that are here today. these are pga players, these are unbelievably talented people. they are talented in their mind and body. their muscles are strong, but their mind has to be stronger. it is tough, and these are tough people, incredible people. i want to thank all of you for being here tonight. it is an honor for me, especially as a golfer. [applause] pres. trump: i want to thank big jim justice. stand up, big jim, come on. he weighst 6'10" and about -- i'm not going to say for hundred 50, i won't do that to you. but he is a big man and he has done a great job. west virginia is second in the nation and the percentage increase in gdp. think of what that means. and jim just said, before we met

trump, that number was not good. pretty close to last, right? and combinations of a lot of good people with shelley and you and us. but think of that. texas was first, texas, during a great job. great governor there, too. but texas was first. west virginia was second, percentage increase of gdp. incredible compliment -- incredible accomplishment in a short period of time. i want to thank everyone at the green briar for making this tournament a beautiful tribute to our military. thanks again to the veterans tonight and all across america. we love you, we thank you, and we will never forget you. god bless our veterans, god bless america, and happy independence day to all. thank you very much. this is a great honor. thank you. [applause]

you can't always get what you want you can't always get what you want you can't always get what you want but if you try sometimes you'll find you get what you need ♪ [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2018] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] announcer: justice anthony kennedy's retirement brings a significant change to the supreme court. follow the story on c-span, from president trump nominating a

replacement, the senate confirmation hearings, to the swearing-in, all on c-span, c-span.org, or the free c-span radio app. announcer: supreme court chief justice john roberts recently spoke about justice anthony kennedy's retirement at a federal judicial conference of the fourth circuit in west virginia. he also talked about the work environment among the justices and the idea of having cameras in the courtroom. [applause]